Take the last frame to Clarksville … for the first time in over three decades, film has returned to the corner of Franklin and First! Sponsored by Planters Bank, with additional support provided by the Clarksville-Montgomery County Arts & Heritage Development Council, this film series features vintage flicks and modern classics, presented on Sunday afternoons in our 153-seat auditorium.

Admission is $5 (cash or check only). Tickets for each film go on sale one week prior to the showing and are available at the box office between 9:00am and 2:00pm, Monday through Friday. Any remaining tickets are available at the door one hour prior to showtime. Popcorn, candy and bottled water are available as concessions.

Steel Magnolias

 

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of strong-willed women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold. Julia Roberts earned her first Oscar nomination as “Best Supporting Actress” in this film adapted from Robert Harling’s stage hit, which also features Dolly Parton, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis and Daryl Hannah.

2pm June 25

 

Rating: PG

Running time: 118 minutes

Release year: 1989

Director: Herbert Ross

Cast: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Julia Roberts, Olympia Dukakis

Forrest Gump

 

Tom Hanks stars in this story of a simple man who is unwittingly swept up in some of the key moments of the 20th century, from landmark events like the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, to key figures of pop culture including Elvis Presley, John Lennon and several presidents.

2pm July 2

 

Rating: PG-13

Running time: 142 minutes

Release year: 1994

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field

101 Dalmatians

 

When a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella de Vil, parents Pongo and Perdita must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.

2pm July 9

 

Rating: G

Running time: 80 minutes

Release year: 1961

Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton S. Luske, Clyde Geronimi

Cast: Betty Lou Gerson, Cate Bauer, Frederick Worlock, J. Pat O’Malley, Tom Conway

Hook

 

Robin Williams stars as a workaholic yuppie lawyer who remembers he was once Peter Pan after Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) kidnaps his children. While returning to Neverland to rescue them, the miserable man is forced to rediscover his inner child and become a better father in the process.

2pm July 16

 

Rating: PG

Running time: 145 minutes

Release year: 1991

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith

Jumanji

 

When two kids (Kirsten Dunst and Bradley Pierce) find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped in it for decades (Robin Williams), along with a host of dangers which can only be stopped by finishing the game.

2pm July 23

 

Rating: PG

Running time: 105 minutes

Release year: 1995

Director: Joe Johnston

Cast: Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, Bebe Neuwirth

Swiss Family Robinson

 

In Disney’s spectacular screen version of the literary classic by Johann David Wyss, a Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island in the South Pacific, using teamwork and wits to overcome the obstacles of nature and man.

2pm July 30

 

Rating: G

Running time: 126 minutes

Release year: 1960

Director: Ken Annakin

Cast: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Tommy Kirk

Dirty Dancing

 

Spending the summer with her family at an upscale Catskills resort in the 1960s, an innocent teen (played by Jennifer Grey) falls in love with the camp’s dance instructor (Patrick Swayze). Featuring the Oscar-winning song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.”

2pm August 6

 

Rating: PG-13

Running time: 97 minutes

Release year: 1987

Director: Emile Ardolino

Cast: Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston

Up

 

In a determined effort to defy his helpless senior citizen status and fulfill a lifelong dream, 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen ties thousands of balloons to his house and floats away to South America. Soon after his remarkable lift-off, Carl finds that he has a stowaway: an 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. The pair find a lost world full of incredible adventures and must learn to survive their new surroundings — and each other.

2pm August 13

 

Rating: PG

Running time: 96 minutes

Release year: 2009

Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson

Cast: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Delroy Lindo

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

 

After an encounter with U.F.O.s, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen in this classic sci-fi tale about ordinary people and their extraordinary meetings with extraterrestrials.

2pm August 20

 

Rating: PG

Running time: 135 minutes

Release year: 1977

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, François Truffaut, Bob Balaban

2001: A Space Odyssey

 

An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship’s computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.

6pm August 21

 

Rating: G

Running time: 139 minutes

Release year: 1968

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter